High Heel Cupcakes

Ok so I have been MIA.   MIA for quite a while.  I have no excuse, I mean I have some, but no good one.  My sister pointed it out to me today, and I thought if people were really reading this then maybe I need to get my butt in gear and get back on that blog writing horse.

I have not been doing to much baking lately.  I got some tests done from the doctor and found out my body is very sensitive (not allergic) to many of the foods that I have been eating and will tolerate, even wants, food that I have been avoiding.  Go figure!  Chicken and broccoli are a big no no for me right now.  My body does not like it and therefore the only meat I can eat is Turkey or salmon.  No red meat, chicken, tuna,etc.  So eggs and turkey are my new best friends in the protein department.  Also broccoli.  I have that about 3--4 times per week.  But no more.  My body does not like that or strawberries, grapes,carrots, cabbage, or beans.  BUT it does like bananas, apples and cauliflower, all of which I have been avoiding because of the high sugar and carb content.  Go figure.  So for the next 6 months I am avoiding all the foods my body doesn't like and trying to eat those it does like.

But what about my love of baking?  Well I got creative tonight, and I have to say as a side note I have incredible will power.  With that thought, I baked these cute High Heel Cupcakes tonight to try and see how they looked.  They turned out great!

They were pretty easy, just time consuming.  So here goes

High Heel Cupcakes

Bake cupcakes according to box directions and let cool

get graham crackers and cut them at an angle to create the "inside" of the shoes

Then dip these pieces in melted chocolate.  

Let them dry on a piece of waxed paper.

Now you want to coordinate your cupcake holders, chocolate and frosting to all match to make the type of shoes you want.  I tried the "Zebra" type of high heel.

While they are drying, frost your cupcakes.  In order to get the zebra look on mine I first frosted with white frosting then I just added some dark chocolate frosting to a ziplock bag and snipped the end and made lines across.  You then dip the entire frosted part into a bowl of white sugar to give the frosted look.  

Step 1 frost cupcakes

Step 2 add your zebra lines

Step 3 dip in sugar.

Now cut a small part of the cupcake away to get it read for the assembly.  I used a biscuit cutter and just pushed it in about an inch and used a knife to cut the rest away.

Fill in cupcake with piped frosting. Now its time to assemble.  On a plate take one of the dipped graham crackers and a round cookie. Pipe a line of frosting on all side except the wide end of the cracker and dip into the sugar to give it the same look as the top of the cupcake.   I used the pirouette cookies because I couldn't find the Oreo straws which were black and I thought would look much better but I used what I could find.  Anyway, take the straw cookie and cut it in half and at an angle on one end.  dip the aneled end into melted chocolate to "glue" it to the graham cracker.  slide the graham crackers into the cupcake where you cut out a piece of the cake.  Make sure you put the wide end into the cupcake and the narrow end goes out.

With a straw or toothpick put a dot of melted chocolate on a M&M and attach to heel to make a design.

There you go.  High Heel Cupcakes.

Now the possibilities are endless for this.  Red shoes, black shoes pink ones, you just need to get the appropriate decorating sugar.  Silver and blue would be pretty to.  I loved these....I hope you do to!